On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 23:56 +0200, Strainu wrote:
> Totally agree. It's not a question of how small/large such a change
> is, it's a question of collaboration and mutual respect. Which was
> lacking, yet again :(

While I'm not sure if "UI Standardization" is defined as a product in
WMF, I'd hope that in the future
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guideline
will generally be helpful (which welcomes feedback).

The project's workboard can be found at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ui-standardization/ and it is
linked from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface

> Some communities will miss these changes completely just because they
> had already overridden the old values in Common.css, most likely for
> historical reasons. A heads-up would have allowed them to decide on
> whether to go with the upstream changes or stick with the current
> layout.

Regarding a heads-up, would it have helped to have these changes listed
in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/49 ?

Cheers,
andre
-- 
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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